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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe eBook print copy available. The Bedford Handbook, 11th edition Print. A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature, 3rd ed. Print no eBook available. Fantastic is the only word that comes to mind. The prose and the format took a little getting used to, but other than that, I love the feeling of "epic" it gives off. I look forward to reading more of the stories in this book in the future! Aug 10, Matt rated it it was amazing Shelves: lit-crit , fictions-of-the-big-it , poesy , top-shelf , anthologies.
This is one of those big, clunky things you find in your parent's castaway bookshelf when you're 15 and, if you're impetuous enough, you start to get deeper and deeper into until you're up over your head in some of the most powerful works ever known to man. This is one of the treetrunk books of my life- most of the branches come out from this root. The footnotes and explanatory stuff pretty much made everything come alive for me, whetting my appetite for going out and getting my hands on the Ro This is one of those big, clunky things you find in your parent's castaway bookshelf when you're 15 and, if you're impetuous enough, you start to get deeper and deeper into until you're up over your head in some of the most powerful works ever known to man.
The footnotes and explanatory stuff pretty much made everything come alive for me, whetting my appetite for going out and getting my hands on the Romantics, Joyce, etc etc etc I've never really been the same since. A milestone! Read many selections for a course but not the entirety. Hard to rate the whole of British literary history in one go; there were good ones and uninteresting ones.
A Fine selection with great introductions to the periods and the major authors! Mar 03, Sara rated it it was amazing. Has helped me so much in my studies. I still love to re-read sections of this book. From Beowolf through the 20th century, and my college textbook for a survey course. Seems obvious now that it's thoroughly devoid of diversity, and sort of a throw-back. But a rather wonderful capture of what the academy used to consider the sum total of worthwhile literature.
This was for my British Literature 2 class this semester. I liked the selection in it. Jekyll and Mr. Prufrock by T. The Norton editors are to be both commended and lamented. In these kinds of anthologies--English, American, World, etc. However, they also construct stories, genres, and sets of ideologies that may or may not have ever occurred to the authors at the times. For instance, Blake might not have considered his poetry to have any kinship at all with Keats, Coleridge, Byron, etc.
As much of a boon as the Norton anthologies are, they also have helped build and solidify canons of literature. Also the critical introductions foreground certain aspects of these works, while downplaying or ignoring other readings, influences, and purposes. However, it is also important to remember that all anthologies engage in this kind of project, not just those put out by Norton.
If you love reading and history, this is a perfect way to combine the two. This huge anthology was used in my two Analysis of English Literature courses, and it goes from Beowulf to the works of Rushdie. There's a wide range of genre works, and to be honest this changed my view on the varying types of written media.
Not only do you see the evolution of writing, but you get exposed to some of the great masterpieces of English literature in existence. A very good read, even if only to open your ey If you love reading and history, this is a perfect way to combine the two. A very good read, even if only to open your eyes to more literature.
View 1 comment. I've hardly read the whole anthology, only bits and pieces here and there, assigned by teachers. While it's undoubtedly packed with classic works as well as biographies and background stories, it's very difficult to read; the print is extremely small and the pages so thin that you can see the text on the other side of the sheet. Not a recommended read for tired eyes A more constrained and therefore more limited collection than the full two volume Norton Anthology of English Literature, this was the second volume Denison asked me to purchase -- rather than selecting Volume 2 of the full anthology, so my bookshelf is forever bereft a copy of "Norton Anthology of English Literature, Fifth Edition, Volume 2".
How sad. I did not read the whole thing, of course, but in my spare time I like to read other things that we did not get to in class. I plan on reading the whole thing by the end of next year, but I doubt that that will happen!
This is, by far, the biggest tome I've slogged through from cover to cover. It was great to discover new authors and new works I otherwise might not have had the chance to read. But most of all, now I can say with absolute truthfulness that I have read this in its entirety. Sep 29, Nima rated it it was amazing. What can one say about this book?!!!!!! A real opus magnum and probably the best that exist about English Literature! One of my favorite textbooks.
Where is Shelley's Alastor and Epipsychidion? Otherwise, a commendable Volume. Sep 06, Fallon Burns rated it it was amazing.
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